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2022 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 572K customer-hours (Virginia average 10.0 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 756th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lynchburg city, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 17, 2022 19:15 | June 20, 2022 22:45 | 3d 3h | 5,564 | 99K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 02:15 | December 27, 2022 20:30 | 4d 18h | 4,750 | 193K |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 08:45 | January 7, 2022 20:00 | 4d 11h | 4,461 | 89K |
| 4 | October 7, 2022 12:15 | October 7, 2022 22:30 | 10h 15m | 4,291 | 6,220 |
| 5 | July 5, 2022 17:15 | July 8, 2022 04:45 | 2d 11h | 3,474 | 17K |
| 6 | May 20, 2022 17:00 | May 20, 2022 18:00 | 1h | 3,361 | 854 |
| 7 | September 13, 2022 03:00 | September 13, 2022 18:00 | 15h | 2,549 | 4,164 |
| 8 | May 10, 2022 13:45 | May 10, 2022 23:45 | 10h | 2,179 | 4,542 |
| 9 | June 2, 2022 20:30 | June 4, 2022 02:45 | 1d 6h | 2,029 | 9,809 |
| 10 | March 20, 2022 01:30 | March 20, 2022 16:00 | 14h 30m | 1,869 | 1,636 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 84 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Lynchburg city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2022 | 17.4 hrs | 2.67 | 10.1 hrs | 2.22 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Virginia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 59,258 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, VA annual power outage report, 2022, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/virginia/lynchburg-city